I mean, am I wrong that whatever we do here is basically irrelevant? It’s like taxes on the ultra-rich. Whoever has the least regulation, is where they’ll setup shop.

The US is already where most of the biggest tech companies in the world are, besides China, and they’re pretty hard-committed to regulating “absolutely nothing”, so it’s not like anyone was running to develop major AI competition in Canada regardless.

My understanding is that so long as we’re short of offering huge tax breaks and incentives to AI companies, or blocking access to these tools, anything the government really does is just noise making and political posturing. I wouldn’t really care as an EU official either.

Yeah, this was the issue for me. Initially recall couldn’t be turned off, until people rioted. Then I’m hearing about it turning back on with updates. I saw one guy with a script to automatically double check that it’s off on a regular interval. And now there’s seemingly just wave after wave of new things to turn off. Microsoft recently described Windows 11 as an “AI OS”, so it’s not slowing down either.

So what, I need to check all my settings after every update? Read the news before updating? I just switched to Linux, screw this mess, best of luck to anyone who can’t do the same.

Hmm, you could try using scopebuddy, which comes included with Bazzite. You can include any config options in there if you want, but specifically it supports options for automatically configuring width and height, and you can add more arguments as well. Final command here might look like:

scb --force-grab-cursor %command%

I also use a lot of custom configs, for example I’m tinkering with Wayland atm, but keep a gamescope config I use like this:

SCB_CONF="gamescope.conf" scb %command%

The shorter syntax is really nice, and it’s nice to be able to tweak a bunch of global options like PROTON_WAYLAND and PROTON_ENABLE_HDR without having to manage huge commands in Steam.

Wow, what a mess. Personally, I’m fine with this degree of telemetry, trying to understand how many people are using your app has obvious value and isn’t a huge concern for me compared to what telemetry usually refers to. This feels like a bit of a “mountain out of a molehill” where the overwhelming quantity of feedback has aggravated the primary dev into being very jaded about the whole topic. I assume he got a lot more flack for this than is still preserved in this thread.

The big thing about Bruno is that nothing is synced to the cloud, so I can use it without worrying about it being a security risk. In addition to being pretty great, and letting me easily distribute a collection in a git repository. For that, it definitely still earns my support as a good tool, whether I’m logged as a “daily active user” or not.

Still, hopefully the main version does get that opt out added, mostly just to remove the black mark from its name and to be properly GDPR compliant.

What you’re looking for is called “Wabbajack”. It’s a pretty impressive system, because it actually pulls all the mods from their official nexus mods source, rather than requiring you get permission from every mod you want to include to be compiled into some new package that then has to be maintained and updated whenever anything updates.

It’s like setting up a full-blown, fully tweaked modlist in a single click. Really impressive solution to navigating a lot of the thorniness that would come from redistributing other people’s work in a “traditional” modpack.

Interesting, I’ve never heard of that one! Might be worth some research as well

Only recently moved over to Linux, is SuperTuxKart actually… good? Like, me and my wife have put tons of hours into modded Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the physics are really fun, the accessibility options are good enough that she can reasonably keep up with me, and the graphics are super appealing. Is Tux Kart worth my time to look into? Does it have a chance of appealing to my very casual wife?

Ugh, I hate this. So annoying to order water only to be given a bottle of it that’s somehow 4$. If I wanted to pay 4$ I would’ve at least ordered a real drink, bottled water often isn’t better than tap anyways.

Yeah, this shot looks a little odd, but I don’t see any hallmarks of AI generation here. Honestly, I think it’s just heavy zoom on a phone with automatic postprocessing. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was what 10 or 20x zoom looks like on some Android phone, with the weird smoothing around her leg and some other details like it.

All the details you’ve mentioned that people are calling out aren’t really the kind of thing AI does at all, people now just assume anything that looks odd is AI, which uh… yeah, makes sense, say hello to one of the obvious consequences of AI image generation. Wish us luck over the next decade 😬

I mean… there’s a substantial difference between agreeing with a lifestyle, and persecuting that lifestyle. I assume you aren’t currently picketing churches and harassing religious people, for example. The Bible is clear that an abundance of things are sinful, but Jesus consistently sets an example of loving prostitutes and tax collectors and Roman soldiers and everyone else Jews of that day hated.

So what this tweet is claiming is absolutely valid, the New Testament is immensely clear you should love everyone, and you shouldn’t give “fundamentalists” a biblical pass for ignoring one of the most fundamental points the Bible makes, in hopes that they’ll be willing to completely discard religion. They should be educated on their own damn book, and it’s perfectly reasonable to call them on that.

Only thing I’ve been running personally has been Reno DX, to add HDR while not departing from the original look. Nice to cleanup all the colour banding on the dynamic lights in dark areas, such as the constant spotlight on Hornet. And yes, it works just fine through Proton, although I had to install it with a prepped zip file from some Reddit thread.

Here’s my last judge fight if you want to see the results (note that YT only offers HDR output on HDR compatible displays).

This is neat, but feels extremely niche. Frame generation in general is already niche, or should be (you need a 240Hz monitor just to get 60FPS-like input lag at 2x. 480Hz at 4x, which is where I think it becomes compelling). It’s cool tech, but I resent the way this stuff is marketed like it’s amazing for everyone when it’s only a better experience for like… 0.1% of players.

Doing this generically, without information like motion vectors will make the other tradeoffs like artifacting even worse, so I’m not sure what the scenario is where I’d really want this. Nice for people with 500Hz+ monitors, who play games that don’t natively support frame generation, where they can’t natively get to ultra high framerates but can get past 120 where the doubled input latency is tolerable, who aren’t competitive enough to care more about the input lag increase more than the “fluidity” one, and still want a super high visual framerate at a high risk of visual artifacting, I guess?

I was actually able to get the software working by adding it to steam as a “non steam game”. Proton (GE in my case) was able to run it just fine, which is great, as that was one of the last reasons I had to boot into Windows.

Eager to see this, and really glad they’re going with Bazzite, as that’s become my personal gaming rig for much the same reasons they’re doing this now. Will absolutely consider their hardware reviews and benchmarks with this data over others.

Interesting stuff. Yeah, can confirm I’ve not had any experiences like that in my 6-ish months with it, despite screwing around with nearly everything under the sun: emulators, modding games, hosting services, third party launchers, etc, but I guess it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that it hasn’t always been that rock solid.

My only real issue so far has been that Steam isn’t quite wayland-ready, and I’m insistent on tinkering with HDR gaming and therefore run into issues with Steam Input or Steam Overlay.

Fascinating, what were you up to manage that? As far as I’m aware, that should basically only be possible with rpm-ostree commands, which are pretty strongly recommended against in the documentation, and I’ve yet to find something I really need any for.

Haha, you’re not wrong. Ours tend to ebb and flow with whatever urgent priority upper management has set as well, and it tends to take slack alongside our tech debts. Our management is listening and getting better though, I’m hopeful that in a few years we truly will catch up on our tech debts and have all our managed products in good shape at once.

That said, even in that environment, we’ve had some pretty incredible 20% success stories. Some of my own experiments from when I’ve had the time have become proper released features, although I mostly use it to skip the bureaucracy and address my pet peeve tech debts, which isn’t the point but is nice to be able to do. And one of our major internal products, with a large dedicated team and roadmap, began as one developer’s 20% project a few years back.

Same, I was looking for inconsistencies in lighting, black/white points, etc, and I think in several cases I picked an image as AI based on details that were a result of photo manipulation and not “real”. I got the same score as you in the end here.

Kinda interesting, somewhat invalidated what I thought this was testing, but it’s an interesting test nonetheless. I may retake this in a few days now that I know it’s comparing AI to photoshop and not “reality”. Would certainly need a different strategy.

The best companies will do something like “20% time”, leaving one day a week or something to work on whatever, which is fantastic for stuff like this. Some of your employees almost certainly have the best ideas, if you just trust them with the space to prove them out.

Great way to get cool stuff like this without unpaid labour.

Mhm, that’s fair. I feel like there is some degree of intuition and utter top level mastery that may be unattainable as an adult. But I’m talking about something like a second language feeling completely natural, or Olympic level mastery of a skill. And that requires a lot more than just being young as well.

It feels crazy to assert that you can’t learn any skill as an adult though. It’s absolutely hard to make the time like you could as a kid, but if you make it a priority, I feel like pretty much anything is possible. I certainly think you can learn more than enough to be satisfied and have a great time and impress others and all that good stuff. I don’t need to be a prodigy or an Olympian at something to take joy in learning and doing it.